Research

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1.   The Volkswagen Emission Scandal: Exploring the Role of Environmental Concern and Social Norms (with P. Parrotta, D. Sala, and G. Valletta), Journal of Environmental Economics and Managment, 2024.

2. What Makes Entrepreneurship Counter-cyclical? Evidence from a shutdown of start-up subsidies in Denmark (with F. Melillo, P. Parrotta and N. Smith), Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2024.

3. What Makes Entrepreneurship Counter-cyclical? Evidence from a shutdown of start-up subsidies in Denmark (with F. Melillo, P. Parrotta and N. Smith), Academy of Management Best Papers and Proceedings, 2022

4. Money to Move: The Effect on Researchers of an International Mobility Grant,  Research Policy, 2020 (with S.H. Baruffaldi and F. Visentin)

5.   Electricity (De-)Regulation and Innovation, (with P. Parrotta and G. Valletta), Research Policy, 2018.

6.   The impact of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme on Multiple Measures of Economic Performance, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017  (with G. Marin and C. Pellegrin)

7.  International Mobility and Research Careers: Evidence from a Mobility Grant, Academy of Management Best Papers and Proceedings, 2017 (with S.H. Baruffaldi and F. Visentin)

8.  Additionality or Crowding-out? An Overall Evaluation of R&D Subsidy on Private R&D Expenditure, Research Policy, 2016 (with P. Parrotta,  S. Lhuillery and D.Sala)

9.  Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016  (with P. Parrotta and D. Pozzoli)

10.  Self-employment, Start-up Incentives and Political Ideology, Applied Economics Letters, 2015,  (with  S. H. Baruffaldi  and P. Parrotta)

11.  Does Parents' Cultural Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?, Applied Economics Letters, 2015, (with P. Parrotta)

12.   Patenting and The Role of Knowledge Spillovers, World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 2014, (with C.W. Bloch)

13.  Does Labor Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?, Economics Letters, 2012, (with P. Parrotta and D. Pozzoli) 

Policy Reports

1. Evaluation of the impact of direct and indirect support to R&D in France (with P. Parrotta and S. Lhuillery). Study commissioned by the French Ministry of Education and Research, 2013

2. Advanced Postdoc.Mobility Fellowships (SNSF): A Policy Evaluation. (with S.H. Baruffaldi, D. Foray, and F. Visentin). 2015. Policy Brief. College of Management of Technology Series, Issue 2015/1. Commissioned by the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

Forthcoming Projects:

1. Larger Subsidies, Greener Technologies? Assessing the Influence of Environmental Funding on the Dutch Manufacturing Firms (with M. Marino, K. B. Tchorzewska  F.P. Appio). R&R Industry & Innovation.

2. Categorical Diversification as a Barrier to (Intra-Organizational) Contamination: Evidence from Dieselgate (with A. Piazza and P. Parrotta). In preparation for submission. 

3. Social capital and regional innovation in the aftermath of crisis: Evidence from Italian Provinces (with S. Montresor and A. Faggian). Submitted.

4. The direct and indirect effects of environmental investment subsidies on green investment (with K.B. Tchorzewska and P. Del Rio Gonzaléz). 

5. Entrepreneurship as Emancipation: The Unusual Case of an Organization Countering the Mafia (with G. Cacciotti, P. Parrotta and  F. De Bakker). 

6. The Job Satisfaction of Former Entrepreneurs. Unpacking Non-Pecuniary Returns to Entrepreneurial Experience (with H. Brea Solis and F. Melillo).

7. Entrepreneurship and Social Media (with G. Cacciotti).

8. EU Leniency Program Reforms and Innovation Outcomes (with P.Parrotta, G. Valletta, V. Sterzi and A. Jochem). 

9. Local Government Size and Innovation: the Case of Italian Provinces (with F. Casoria, P. Parrotta and D. Sala). 

10.  Environmental Degradation, Eco-innovation and Organized Crime (with D. Baiardi and P. Parrotta).

11. Business Cycle and R&D Additionality (with J. Møen and P. Parrotta).

12. MNEs and Knowledge Transfer in France (with A. Garsaa, P. Parrotta and V. Sterzi).